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It was friday evening, Oct 19th 2007. Right over the Canadian Rockies, right over Jasper, Alberta, approximately. (12:30am, Sat. morning?)
I had a window seat and looked out while over the Canadian Rockies. I saw what I initially thought were big baseball field lights, but the lights were behaving strangely. Then I realized a second later that mountains don’t usually have very large baseball fields!
The passenger next to me who lives in Edmonton confirmed for me that these were the Northern Lights.
Wow.
I didn’t expect anything from a sci-fi movie, but the movement of the lights were much faster and more magical that I expected.
It looked like, if you flipped the sky upside down, there were isolated glow-in-the-dark showers. There were vertical streams of light that would brighten while the areas in between would become dimmer only to morph back into a haze again.
It was cloudy in both Seattle and Edmonton, so I had to see all of this on the plane above the clouds. I have to say this plane trip goes down in history for obvious reasons.
Because of the plane lighting, I couldn’t snap a photo, but these are the types of things best seen with your own eyes. Pictures don’t do the experience justice, no matter the color.
